El Alamein suicide mission
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | El Alamein suicide mission |
| Original title | Commandos |
| Country of production |
Italy Germany |
| original language |
Italian English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 112 (Italy), 88 (Germany) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Armando Crispino |
| script |
Lucio Battistrada Armando Crispino Menahem Golan Stefano Strucchi Dario Argento |
| production |
Alfonso Sansone Artur Brauner |
| music | Mario Nascimbene |
| camera | Benito Frattari |
| cut | Daniele Alabiso |
| occupation | |
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Himmelfahrtskommando El Alamein is an Italian-German war film from 1968 with international star cast, including Lee van Cleef , Joachim Fuchsberger , Götz George and Heinz Reincke .
action
North Africa in October 1942. The advance of German troops under the leadership of Field Marshal Rommel in the direction of Egypt hardly seems to stop, only the Italian allies appear to the Anglo-American allies as the weak link in the German forward strategy. Under the leadership of the slightly psychopathic US warrior Sergeant Sullivan and the more level-headed Italian-American Valli, the Americans land by parachute with a special squad near the Italian camp in an oasis and take it. Sullivan and his people can surprise the Italians in their camp just before El Alamein and wait for the Germans in Italian uniforms. During the upcoming visit of the representatives of Rommel's Africa Corps, they hope to learn something about the German advance plans.
The Americans must hold out in Italian disguise for two days, then relief from their own people should arrive. The occupants' nerves are tense, and the Italians fear a bloodbath too if Sullivan's ruse is exposed. But Lieutenant Heitzel of the Wehrmacht instinctively senses during a visit from his people (including Lieutenant Rudi, Sergeant Hans and Sergeant Braumann) that something is wrong with these "allies". Then the storm breaks out of the blue: There is a wild, brutal and brutal exchange of fire at the end of which hardly anyone is left alive. When the guns are empty and the smoke has evaporated, only the German Hans and the Italian Aldo are still alive. They throw away their weapons, the war has lost its ultimate meaning for them.
Production notes
Assumption Commando El Alamein was written in Sardinia in 1968 and had its world premiere on November 19, 1968 in Italy. The German premiere took place on August 8, 1969. The German version has been shortened by around 24 minutes compared to the almost two-hour original version. For the video distribution, the strip was given the new title With oak leaves and swords .
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film saw in the strip an "episode from the Africa campaign of the Second World War, which only serves as the material for a bloody piece of suspense cinema far from any documentary intention."
US critic Leonard Maltin called the strip "a cliché-soaked war drama".
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Alamein suicide mission. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .
- ^ Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 253